Best John Grisham
Sycamore Row is a 2013 legal thriller by John Grisham and a sequel to A Time to Kill. Set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, it again follows lawyer Jake Brigance, who is appointed to defend a handwritten will that leaves most of a wealthy man's estate to his Black housekeeper. The resul...
A Time for Mercy is a 2020 legal thriller by John Grisham and the third novel centered on attorney Jake Brigance, following A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row. Set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, it follows Brigance as he is appointed to defend sixteen-year-old Drew Gamble, who is accuse...
The Guardians is a 2019 legal thriller by John Grisham about wrongful convictions and the American death-penalty system. Its protagonist, Cullen Post, is a lawyer and Episcopal minister working for Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit that represents prisoners believed to be innocent. The central...
"The Last Juror" is a legal thriller by John Grisham, published in 2004. It is set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, in Ford County, a recurring setting in Grisham's work, during the 1970s. The narrative follows a young newspaper publisher as he covers a brutal murder trial and its viol...
The Testament is a 1999 legal thriller novel by John Grisham. The plot centers on Troy Phelan, an eccentric billionaire who shocks his heirs by writing a new will just before his suicide that leaves his entire fortune to an unknown illegitimate daughter. The daughter, Rachel Lane, is discovered to b...
The Partner is a 1997 legal thriller by John Grisham. The plot follows Patrick Lanigan, a former Biloxi law firm partner who embezzles $90 million, fakes his own death, and flees to Brazil, where he is eventually tracked and captured. The novel examines the legal maneuvers surrounding his return to...
Camino Island is a 2017 crime novel by John Grisham centered on the theft of valuable original manuscripts by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Princeton University's library. The investigation leads to Bruce Cable, an independent bookseller on a fictional Florida barrier island, and Mercer Mann, a novelist...
The Street Lawyer is a 1998 legal novel by John Grisham. It follows Michael Brock, an attorney at a powerful Washington, D.C., firm whose encounter with a homeless man forces him to confront the consequences of an eviction involving his employer. Brock leaves corporate practice to work at a legal cl...
The Racketeer is a legal thriller by American novelist John Grisham, published in 2012. Its narrator, Malcolm Bannister, is a disbarred lawyer serving a federal prison sentence who claims to know who murdered a federal judge and offers that information to the authorities in exchange for his release....
The Judge's List is a 2021 legal thriller by John Grisham and the second novel centered on Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. Stoltz receives information suggesting that a sitting judge has committed a series of carefully concealed murders and must investigate wi...
John Grisham's 2016 thriller about a Florida judicial conduct investigator who uncovers a corrupt judge's long-hidden ties to organized crime.
John Grisham's 2011 novel about a burned-out Wall Street lawyer who joins a small Chicago personal injury firm and stumbles into a major pharmaceutical lawsuit.
John Grisham's 2022 novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, tracing two families across decades whose sons become a prosecutor and a criminal kingpin.
John Grisham's 2005 thriller about a pardoned former presidential advisor secretly relocated to Italy by the CIA and given a fabricated identity.
John Grisham's 2017 novel about three law students who discover their for-profit law school is a fraudulent operation and conspire to expose it.
John Grisham's 2014 novel in which a laid-off New York lawyer does pro bono work in Appalachian coal country and uncovers deep corporate corruption.
John Grisham's 2002 thriller in which a law professor discovers hidden cash in his dying father's home and must determine its dangerous origin.
John Grisham's 2015 novel featuring Sebastian Rudd, a maverick criminal defense attorney who operates from a customized van outside the legal establishment.
John Grisham's 2003 legal thriller about a public defender who is seduced into the lucrative and corrupt world of mass-tort class-action lawsuits.
John Grisham's 2020 sequel to Camino Island, set on a Florida barrier island during a hurricane that coincides with a murder of a bestselling author.
